"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration...

India is likely to become a major force in the area of Biotechnology in the next decade. The Department of Biotechnology has encouraged human resource development by creating new institutions and centers of excellence for the research opportunities in this, direction. Any research work in biotechnology uses cell culture as a basic tool in manipulation of cell organelle genetically as well as phenotypically. This book is an attempt to comprehensively,...

This handbook presents information on different cell culture assays, which can be used to perform experimental analysis. Readers are introduced to the basics of in vitro cell cultures followed by a comparative analysis of different experimental protocols designed to detect cellular processes (such as apoptosis, protein-protein interactions, cytotoxicity, gene transfer). Chapters present information on the basics of specific experimental techniques...

Sphagnum mosses are small plants of the division of Bryophyta that are widespread and abundant in peatlands and several other types of wetlands. About sixty species of Sphagnum mosses are known for the territories of Quebec, Labrador and the Maritimes (with the exception of the island of Newfoundland). However, it can be laborious to identify these plants to the species taxonomic level. This book provides a unique dichotomous key for a visual identification...

This comprehensive history of cell evolution "deftly discusses the definition of life" as well as cellular organization, classification and more (San Francisco Book Review). The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental mysteries in biology, one that has spawned a large body of research and debate over the past two decades. With In Search of Cell History, Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial take on that research and the...

Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself-from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living systems and creative processes, and he reveals that the four great life transformations-evolution,...

This book comes from two authors with scientific backgrounds. It recognises the huge advances made through science and their beneficial impact on society. However, it also expresses concern that the essentially tentative nature of scientific conclusions is being replaced by a growing tendency to accord to science the last word on a range of subjects. While the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of 2020 has shown some of the uncertainties associated with scientific...

Une étude consacrée à un essai du célèbre embryologue Wilhelm Roux En 1881, le grand embryologiste allemand Wilhelm Roux publie cet essai dont la densité et l'originalité ne cessent, encore aujourd'hui, d'étonner. Inspiré par les idées de Charles Darwin, il cherche à en prolonger la portée en imaginant l'organisme comme un territoire o des formes variables de sélection naturelle opèrent sur toutes les entités, de la cellule à l'organe....

Une remise en question du déterminisme génétique Une révolution se produit actuellement en biologie. Les êtres vivants ne sont pas gouvernés par un programme génétique omnipotent. Il est maintenant clairement démontré que le hasard se niche au coeur des organismes, dans le fonctionnement des gènes et des cellules, et y joue un rle encore largement sous-exploré. Alors que pendant longtemps, la biologie a été dominée par des théories...

Les organismes génétiquement modifiés, toute une aventure scientifique et politique expliquée par Yasmine Lrhziel. Au lendemain de la publication de l'étude choc de Gilles-Éric Séralini, professeur de biologie moléculaire à l'université de Caen, par la revue américaine Food and Chemical Toxicology, révélant la toxicité du maïs OGM NK603 de Monsanto, le débat sur le dossier sensible des OGM est une fois encore relancé. D'un cté,...